Detachable handle.



H. H. HILL.

DETACHABLE HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED sum: 9.1916.

1,212,057, Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

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HOWARD H. HILL, OF UPPER MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

DETACI-IABLE HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 9, 1916. ser1a1 No. 102,711.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD H. HILL, a citizen of England, residing at Upper Montclair, in the county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable I-Iandles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,'cle'ar, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to handles such as are used on paint buckets and other like devices and has special reference to a detachable handle adapted to be used in connection with any paint bucket or like receptacle where the receptacle has no handle perinanently attached thereto, as for instance, in the case of white lead kegs which are frequently used by painters as receptacles for other paints when the white lead has been emptied therefrom.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved and simplified form of device of this character which can readily be attached to the rim of a receptacle such as a white lead keg and which will securely hold the same for transporting it from place to place.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a device of this description wherein provision will be made for engaging the bead common in receptacles of this character so that the weight will be brought on the bead.

The third important object of the invention is to provide a clamp or grip attached to a carrying bail in such manner that when the bail is in one position the grip may be released from the object, while when the bail is in lifting position the grip can not be released.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like char acters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and Figure 1 is a perspective view of a white lead can or keg showing the device applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the first form of the device; Fig. 8 is a view showing the first form with having a rolled rim 11.

The detachable handle consists of a bail 12 having an eye 13 at each end and engaged on this eye is a fiat plate 14 having an opening 15 at one end for engagement with said eye. There is also engaged on each eye a second plate 16 provided with an opening 17 similar to and for'the same purpose as the opening 15. This plate 16 is bent at its lower end as at 18 to provide a bead engaging channel. By means of this con- Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

struction, the two members or plates 14 and 16 may swing to and from each other on the respective eye 13 and in order to hold these two members in clamping relation each of the members is provided with a polygonal opening 19 wherethrough passes the polygonal shaft 20 of a bolt-having a head 21 which rests against one of the members.

Screwed on the threaded ends of the bolt is a winged nut 22 which bears against the .other member and by rotating the winged nut the two members are drawn together so that, when positioned as shown in Fig. 1, the rim 11 will be engaged in the channel formed by the bend 18 while the lower end of the plate 14 will be forced tightly against the outside of the pail. It will be obvious that when the bead or roll is on the outside of the pail the positions of the members 14 and 16 will be reversed.

In the second form of the invention the bail 23 is provided at each end with an eye 24. At 25 is a plate which has a semi-circularly curved upper end 26 provided with a longitudinally extending slot 27. The distance between the periphery of the curved portion of the plate 25 and the edge of the slot is substantially equal to the diameter internally of the eye 24 so that when the bail is raised to vertical position the plate 25 can not move vertically, while when the bail is lowered to horizontal position the plate 25 can be moved vertically. At 26 is a second plate from which projects the-bent wings or lugs 27' engaging over the sides of the plate 25 so that the two plates are slidably connected. This plate 26 is provided with an opening 28 which is engaged with the eye 24:, the opening being of such nature as to permit rotation of the eye with respect to the plate While preventing any vertical movement. Moreover the plate 26 is provided with a bent portion 29 arranged to form a bead engaging channel and has its lower end flattened as at 30 so as to bear against the flattened part of the pail below the bead.

In each form of the device there is provided a laterally extending lug or stop 31 whereon the bail rests when in horizontal position.

In applying the second form of the device to a pail, the bail is placed in horizontal position and the plate 25 slipped upward to expose the channel in the plate 26. The device may then be placed in position on the pail and the bail raised after the plate 25 has been slipped downward. When in this position it will be impossible to move the plate 25 relative to the plate 26 and thus the device will be locked firmly on the pail. There has thus been'provided a simple and eflicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that many minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material principles thereof. It is not therefore desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described but it is wished to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

What is claimed is 1. The combination With a bail having eyes at its ends; of a detachable connection at each end of the bail comprising a pair of members having openings engaged in the eye, one of the members being slidably mounted on the other and being arranged to coact therewith to form a can edge grip, said eye being arranged to permit relative movement of the members when the bail is in one position and to prevent such movement when the bail is in a second position.

2. The combination, a bail having an eye at the end, a plate having a slot at one end engaged with said eye, the slotted end of the plate being semicircular-1y curved to permit swinging movement of the bail with the eye at the upper end of the slot, said eye having an interior diameter slightly greater than the distance from the edge of the slot to the plate, and a second plate having longitudinal sliding engagement with the first plate and provided with an opening wherewith the eye engages, said plates having their confronting lower faces arranged to form a pail edge grip when the opening is positioned at the upper end of the slot.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

HOWARD H. HILL.

Witnesses:

A. W. BALLATINE, TERENCE J. MCHUGH.

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